in fact when i decided to do it i said to myself, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. now, more than a year later the president says lester holt fudged the tape. of course no evidence of any fudging. no fudging. for the part that is damning president is in the middle of a sentence. no cut a way no edit. an extended version of the interview has been on the web site since may 11, 2017. for the president and followers evidence just doesn t matter. all that matters is what the president says. no matter how many times he lies. contradicts himself or makes things up. it seems to be part of the pattern of trying to dis credit words that aren t good for him. even if they came out of his own mouth. he s doing it now. and the access hollywood tape. he apologized for using locker
caught fudging my tape on russia they were hurt badly. no one was caught fudging anything and no one was hurt badly and the tape speaks for itself. here is what nbc aired on may 11, 2017, two days after the president fired fbi director james comey. regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact when i decided to just do it i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. it s an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. that is what the president said on tape. the public has been seeing this tape for 15 months now. what is the president trying to do here? is he trying to claim that that didn t happen or that it was edited somehow? i m struck that he raised the lester holt interview.
kasowitz is now saying that he was not talking about that may 16 new york times reports which cited memos, but rather a may 11th report wiz they say is very obvious that whomever was the source for the may 11, 2017 new york times story, got information for that story from the memos or someone reading the memos. so they re trying to do back up and cleanup on an unclear job they did yesterday in trying too discredit the fbi director. this is not anything on whether or not the president will testify under oath. but whether there are tapes or whether he was telling the truth and comey was lying. hugh, before we talk to you,